Find us

Giving

Stay in Touch

Kyoto Prize Symposium

Event Start Date

Thursday, March 14, 2013Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall

Event Start Time

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Message

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian theorist and philosopher as well as a political and social activist. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the school’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

Professor Spivak is committed to fulfilling what she regards as a profound and ethical responsibility toward minorities who have been deprived of language and history through an invisible structure of oppression. Her social work in this regard has earned her respect around the world.